Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe’s Twentieth Century

✍ Scribed by Dagmar Herzog (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 302
Series: Genders and Sexualities in History
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: War and Sexuality in Europe’s Twentieth Century....Pages 1-15
‘A Fate Worse Than Dying’: Sexual Violence during the Armenian Genocide....Pages 16-58
Race and Sex, Fear and Loathing in France during the Great War....Pages 59-90
Italian Fascism’s Ethiopian Conquest and the Dream of a Prescribed Sexuality....Pages 91-108
‘The Good Fellow’: Negotiation, Remembrance, and Recollection — Homosexuality in the British Armed Forces, 1939–1945....Pages 109-134
‘Youth Off the Rails’: Teenage Girls and German Soldiers — A Case Study in Occupied Denmark, 1940–1945....Pages 135-167
Camp Brothels: Forced Sex Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps....Pages 168-196
Between ‘Racial Awareness’ and Fantasies of Potency: Nazi Sexual Politics in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union, 1942–1945....Pages 197-220
Sexual Abuse of Jewish Women in Auschwitz-Birkenau....Pages 221-246
Sexual Violence in the Algerian War....Pages 247-260
The ‘Sum of Such Actions’: Investigating Mass Rape in Bosnia-Herzegovina through a Case Study of Foca....Pages 261-283
Back Matter....Pages 284-290

✦ Subjects

European History; Modern History; Cultural History; Gender Studies; Clinical Psychology; Social History

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